Meet the Trustees

Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and was elected a Royal Academician in the same year. In 2011 Emin became Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2013 Queen Elizabeth II appointed her Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts and in 2024 Emin received a damehood from King Charles III for her services to the arts.

Emin has exhibited extensively including solo exhibitions at Munch Museet, Oslo (2021); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2020); Musée d'Orsay, Paris (2019); Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France (2017); Leopold Museum, Vienna (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2013); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2012); Hayward Gallery, London (2011); Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2009); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2008); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain (2008); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2003); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2002).

She has also exhibited her work in a series of acclaimed dialogues with past masters she admires, Tracey Emin, My Bed / JMW Turner, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2017); In Focus: Tracey Emin and William Blake, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2016); Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon, Tate Britain, London (2015); Where I Want to Go, with Egon Schiele, Leopold Museum, Vienna (2015). In November 2020, she opened a major solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The exhibition, entitled The Loneliness of the Soul, then toured to Oslo's new Munch Museet in October 2021. The artist's largest bronze artwork to date, The Mother, was unveiled in June 2022, a permanent public commission for Oslo's Museum Island. 

Emin currently lives and works between London, the South of France and Margate, UK.